The Bible: A Moral book?!

[fr0d0]

And how the fuck do you decide on how to judge the big picture?

I take your constant swearing at this as frustration.

You don't understand the fundamental idea that this is not a book you can read and understand as a non believer. This, sadly for you, is fact.

Context means an appreciation of what the book aims for. You know what Christians say about that but choose to ignore it anyway, and then conclude that it is the opposite. Well big surprise... not.

You think Christians interpret the book differently from each other, as well as from atheists.. when this is a completely different thing. Christians interpret within a framework of peer review. An interpretation by a Christian is subject to criticism and evaluation from other Christians. This also happened more strictly in the Jewish Rabbinical tradition, where a Rabbi's 'Yolk' was his particular interpretation, that needed to be ratified by at least 3 other accepted Rabbi's (IIRC) to be accepted.

Non believers mostly have no clue what the bible is saying. Wild interpretation of the sort you entertain, being entirely illogical when understood within the concept that Christianity understood in choosing those very books, with their apparent contradictions.

It is the method of the time, and it works today, that supposed absurdities/ opposites/ contradictions actually conceal the real truth, which is sorta the point.

If you want to criticize it, it gives you plenty of ammunition. It also makes you look a fool.

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... have you ever... in your life... seen a dictionary, Fr0do?

The context of the bible, is not at the micro level. It is a collection of books compiled for the reason of describing and understanding God. Take out any small peice and you are removing it from it's context. What you have to do is relate it to the rest of the bible where the concept as a whole can be grasped.

If you are talking about some other religion other than Chrstianity, then that's fine. However, if you want to discuss Christianity with me, you need to understand that Christianity specifically factors in Christ to the whole thing. Christ is God from the beginning. The bible does not say that in the beginning, but from the statements about and by Jesus we connect the two to gain meaning. that's how it works.